Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-27

Governor EoRAEER, Of Ohio, hns IN
TIE last tDgm an article. or rathcr
stump speech, entitled THE Return
OF the Republican Party I'm pas
seat. it may be remarked That the
problem Of the "roturn of the Kepub-
lican party to power is, from present
indications, an abstraction more fitting
to be discussed in the Concord School
Of ! Philosophy than in live magazine.
As might have been expected, Foraker
is virulent, violent, yet entertaining,
as the following extracts will show.
He says:
"When the war ended md the Re
publican party entered upon the work
Of reconstuction 1t had 10 purpose eX-
cent to restore the rebellious States to
Their proper relations to the General
Government, IN such a way az best to
secure the fruits OF the war, and, at the
same time demonstrate TO them that
they had been subdued, not fOrconquest,
but only for peace and Union"
Pest secure the fruits of the wa"
is good, seeing that for quarter of
century the Republican party has held
flat there were no fruits OF the war
worthy of the name except theperpetu-
alton of its power. "Only for peace
and Union" is also good. II is more. 1t
is very Imaginable. 1t is the acme Of
bypoclicy. We could not ask better
proof of the truth Of this last assertion
than is contained il the following from
the New York E'ccning Post:;
"It is one of the anomalies of poll
tics that the party which claims to have
saved the Union twenty-five years ago
now seeks to cement that Union by
Yelling such cpithetsas 'unhung rebels
at one third OF the people in the Union,
and Selling upon every such preteXt as
the rebel-fag incident to array the Sec
tons against each other.
How do FORAKER and the rest of the
malignants reconcile that with their
profesSed desire for peace and union !?
OF course FORAKER runs through the
seiye of lis more diminutive mental
capacitv SHERMAN's theories about the
alleged Acknowledgement of the negroes
at the South, and after declaring "that
by reason OF this abuse of its magma
nmitv the enemies of the Republican
party have invested themselves with an
undue proportion of political power,
and have in that way secured control Of
the Government, >" adds:
Republicans ask no more than that
every man shall be allowed to vote as
he nay choose, and that his ballot
shall be counted as cast.
How about the Republican employ
ing classes in the North and their EN-,
ployees?
Having got thoroughly warmed NJ
FORAKER goes on to excuse the Repub
lican party for not stopping "thes(
outrages," on the ground that that
party has not been in power III the
sense of controlling the Legislative
branch of the Government, as well as
the executive, since March 4, 1879,
and leaves us to infer that if it should
again get into full power all who pre-
sent any obstacle to its doing pretty
much as it pleases in the matter OF
elections would be treated as criminals
He says:
"At any rate, if we would have peace
in this country, these crimes (the sup
preston Of votes must be stopped, and
not only must the perpetrators of them
be treated as criminals, but every man
must be held equally guilty who lends
announcement 10 such wrongs by
whining about seciionGlism and sheer
ing about bloody shirt, and insisting
that such political villains must be LEI
alone"
The plain English of this is that the
high and mighty malignant who occu
pies the Ohio gubernatorial chair anG
who threatened to organize a rebellion
against the authorities of the United
States on the flag question would make
it treason. rebellion, and what not to
challenge the nefarious methods Of the
Republican party.
Finally, says FORAKER:
"The Republican party should be
restored to power to check the revival
Of the Southern Confederacy."
This is a pizzling paragraph, and we
confess il places us somewhat in a
qusndary. FoRAKERproves conclusively
that the Republican party ought to be
suppressed. He also proves that he
ought to be suppressed, but whether on
account Of his cussedness or owing to